Top left, Geno Rapa with a nice sideliner and Tom Perry just upstream from bridge.

Hi everybody,we fished the narrow River both Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Tuesday night the tide changed at oh, about 5:20pm to outgoing and that is when the fish started eating our flies, we took fish in the 12” to 22” in class. The water is a lot cooler now and a lot of bait is in the river; we could see juvenile bunker, size 11/2 “to 2” long and a few skipjacks as well. We took a good number of these sideliners and then at dark the shad started showing, and that’s always a lot of fun. The shad where mostly small with a few fish in the 20” class.

 Last night the tide started changing to outgoing at about 6:30pm and it was an altogether different scenario, the water in the system just didn’t want to get moving, no fast moving current, and no rips at all. We did in fact manager to take a few nice bass but no where near the numbers as the night before. On Tuesday the height of the tide was a 3.6’ reading and last night it was 3.4’ just a little different from Tuesday night. But anyway all in all it was still a great night, a few fish, no wind, great friends and a beautiful sunset, what more can one ask for. The flies, all pink, brown over pink, over white, and shrimp patterns, both in sizes, 1/0 & 2/0. For the shad much smaller hooks, flies tided on 4’s and 6’s yellow and white with some flash. We where using intermediate fly lines. The water is clear and not many weeds even on and outgoing tide.

My best and tight loops, Ed     www.edlombardoflyfish.com